**Returning to the story begun in the novel Immortal Coil and
continuing in the bestselling Cold Equations trilogy, this is the next
fascinating chapter in the artificial life of one of Star Trek's most
enduring characters.
He was perhaps the ultimate human achievement: a sentient artificial
life-form--self-aware, self-determining, possessing a mind and body far
surpassing that of his makers, and imbued with the potential to evolve
beyond the scope of his programming. And then Data was destroyed. Four
years later, Data's creator, Noonien Soong, sacrificed his life and
resurrected his android son, who in turn revived the positronic brain of
his own artificial daughter, Lal. Having resigned his commission, the
former Starfleet officer now works to make his way on an alien world,
while also coming to grips with the very human notion of wanting versus
having a child. But complicating Data's new life is an unexpected
nemesis from years ago on the U.S.S. Enterprise--the holographic
master criminal Professor James Moriarty. Long believed to be imprisoned
in a memory solid, Moriarty has created a siphon into the "real" world
as a being of light and thought. Moriarity wants the solid form that he
was once told he could never have, and seeks to manipulate Data into
finding another android body for him to permanently inhabit...even if it
means evicting the current owner, and even if that is Data himself.
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